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“What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...”
Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
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“A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party”
Source : Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.126, Broadway Books
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“My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.”
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“The earth itself is a great big magnet.”
Source : Edward Leedskalnin (1988). “Magnetic Current”, p.4, Health Research Books
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“To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.”
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“She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more - this idea was as sweet as a vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land. ... but Isabel recognized, as it passed before her eyes, the quick vague shadow of a long future. She should never escape; she should last to the end.”
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“You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!”
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“Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.”
Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.115
